[governance] A Group of ITU Members vs. the IGF

[Milton L Mueller]

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Hi Bill and others
> 
> thanks for pointing to the IGF part of the Russian speech. Both
> together (the attack aginst ICANN & the IGF) look like an integrated
> strategy where the key idea is to bring the Internet under an
> intergovernmental mechanism and to kill the concept of
> "multistakeholderism". In the "Russian model" non-governmental
> stakeholders will be "invited" only under certain circumstances, which

May I be so bold as to ask, what is new about this? 
The ITU and (much more importantly, its major member states) have been against MS-ism and for inter-governmentalism consistently and unrelentingly for the past decade. All the incidents you recount, Wolfgang, could have been drawn from WSIS experience.

The major advocates of that point of view have been, consistently, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, and a few other Arabs states. Nothing new there. Brazil and South Africa were originally (in the days of WSIS) making the same noises only stronger, but have since backed off. So insofar as there is something new, it seems that the intergovernmentalists are gradually losing support. 

My advice: in challenging ITU/intergovernmentalism/sovereigntism, etc., remember that the point is to give _people_ rights to self-govern. It is NOT to defend existing IG institutions. 

--MM
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